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HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:12 pm
by milez
Can anyone tell me if this if for a LHD or a RHD M20 please!?! Am due to purchase tomorrow but not convinced it will fit - guy selling it is being really cagey...
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Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:38 pm
by ed325i
Looks to me to be for a LHD car.
What make is it ?
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:52 pm
by munky30
looks rhd to me... it would have to sit on the right side of the engine for the exhaust to come off it to the rear of the car.
If I'm right in remembering that the manifold is on the drivers side of the engine.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:57 pm
by StuBeeDoo
Looks like LHD to me too. Doesn't seem to be "bendy" enough to go 'round the steering coupling.
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:59 pm
by Chris-W
The question is will it clear the steering column on a RHD car, and I'm with Ed.
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:59 pm
by Theo
RHD = right hand drive. Most m20 manifolds are for LHD cars and wont fit rhd cars due to the steering linkage getting in the way.
Hard to say whether it will fit from that picture, he has photographed the two banks the wrong way round, ie the primaries on the left are 3,2,1 as you look at it from left to right, and the primaries on the right are 6,5,4...
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:01 pm
by munky30
yes... because lhd cars dont have the engine the other way round... just the steering column on the other side.... jesus, I really should engage my brain before typing.
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:04 pm
by Chris-W
munky30 wrote:jesus, I really should engage my brain before typing.
And where's the fun in that?
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:22 pm
by ed325i
Doesn't seem to be "bendy" enough to go 'round the steering coupling.
That is what I was thinking. The one I have just fitted is more bendy and the steering coupling goes through the middle of it.
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:27 am
by milez
Thats what i thought really , doesn't seem enough clearance for steering linkage. I've no idea of the make and seller doesn't either.Whats the general opinion, walk away ?
Re: HELP! Can you identify this manifold?
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:50 pm
by StuBeeDoo
milez wrote:Whats the general opinion, walk away ?
If I wasn't 100% certain, I would. You haven't said how much he's asking, but 6-branches aren't cheap. Expensive mistake if it is wrong.
If in doubt.....